> From the php website, it appears that the [EMAIL PROTECTED] can be
> put in the fifth parameter of the mail() function:
>
> Example 3. Sending mail with extra headers and setting an additional
> command line parameter.
>
> mail("[EMAIL PROTECTED]", "the subject", $message,
> "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]", "[EMAIL PROTECTED]");
>
>
> Note: This fifth parameter was added in PHP 4.0.5. Since PHP 4.2.3
> this parameter is disabled in safe_mode and the mail() function will
> expose a warning message and return FALSE if you're trying to use it.
I followed this recent thread with some interest, because I'd like to be
able to set the return-path header for a script that emails to a large list,
which would in turn allow me to identify bounced emails. I'm using a shared
host server, with PHP running as the master account user name, so the
return-path for emails is something like "Return-Path:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>". I had accepted that I could not change
the return-path value with PHP, but reading about this fifth parameter
renewed my hope that I could.
I tried adding a fifth parameter to mail() in order to do this, like so:
// fifth mail() parameter to set envelope sender
$cmd_line_param = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]";
mail("$fullname<$email>", $subject, $message, $headers, $cmd_line_param);
This didn't change the return-path header. Perhaps the problem is that I
have no idea what the syntax of the command line parameter is (what the "-f"
does).
Can anyone advise? Is it possible to use this fifth parameter to set the
return-path header, and if so, what's the syntax?
TIA,
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Lowell Allen
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